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at the intersection of McLean avenue an<l 

 Poplar street. 



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B. W. Hedden, representing H. H. Sal- 

 mon & Co. of New York City, was also a 

 recent visitor to this market. 



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J. T. Burford, of Burford Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chattanooga, Tenn., was another 

 recent visitor to this trade center. 



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Still another visitor to this market was 

 R. .J. Briscoe, manager of iSt. Louis branch 

 of the Desha Lumber Company. 



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J. W. Darling, of the J. W. Darling Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, is the recipient 

 of lots of eongi-atulations these days, all on 

 account of the aiTival, on May 14, of a 

 baby at his home. 



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B. A. Kipp & Co., who have been occu- 

 pying the yard at 105 and 107 West Water 

 street, have purchased ground on West 

 Sixth street and have completed the re- 

 moval of their stock and office to the new 

 quarters. 



will continue in the line of coast products 

 — white pine, hardwoods, cypress, yellow 

 pine, car, railway and structural materials, 

 with increased facilities. 



account of deelining health, he had prac- 

 tically retired from acuve busine.ss. 



ST. LOUIS SAYINGS. 



Announcement is made that the tenth 

 annual lumbermen's picnic will be held at 

 Cottage Grove, a beautiful point on the 

 river, on June 1. It will be an all-day 

 affair, the steamer Cape Girardeau leaving 

 at 9:15 a. m. x'here will be the usual 

 liotly contested baseball game between the 

 "Hardwoods" and the 'Pines," which is 

 usually won by the hardwood boys, and 

 also an almost unlimited number of ath- 

 letic events. Dinner and supper will bo 

 served on the boat, and there w-ill also 

 be a general cakewalk on the boat on the 

 trip home. The.se annual picnics of the 

 St. Louis lumbermen have come to have 

 a national reputation, and there is never 

 one given which is not attended by all 

 the local lumbermen, their families and 

 a number of people from out of town. It 

 is the one opportunity of the year to 

 get acquainted on a social basis, and many 

 friendships have been made between com- 

 petitors who were formerly enemies. The 

 •day is considered as a legitimate holiday 

 for lumbermen, and no attemi)t at busi- 

 ness is attempted. 



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A large crowd of local lumbermen leave 

 for Indianapolis to-day to attend the meet- 

 ing of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. The town is not e.Kactly de- 

 populated, but there will probably be as 

 largo a St. Louis representation as at any 

 previous hardwood convention. 



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 Announcement is made of the resigna- 

 tion of T. C. Skeen, special agent at St. 

 Louis of the American Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company of Pittsburg, to be- 

 come effective about .luly 1. Mr. Skeen 

 has not yet announced his plans; however, 

 it is understood that after that time he 



NORTHWEST NEWS. 

 A. H. Barnard, of Barnard & Strickland, 

 the well-known Mimieapolis wholesalers, 

 represented the dealers of this city at the 

 Indianapolis convention. 



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C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, the 

 hardwood wholesalers of Minneapolis, has 

 returned from a visit to his i^roperty at 

 Erie, 111., where he has a prosperous re- 

 tail lumber yard. He reports fine weather 

 and good trade conditions there. 



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Wm. Miller, president of the Minneapolis 

 Cedar & Lumber Company, has returned 

 from a business trip through Wisconsin. 



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^^'ilcox Bros. >,umber Company of Min- 

 neapolis, which has been a retail house, 

 has branched out into the wholesale bills, 

 and will supply house bills for the city 

 trade from its yard, which will carry hard- 

 wood as well as pine stocks. 



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E. Payson Smith, the well-known Min- 

 neapolis dealer in southern hardwoods aud 

 yellow pine, is on ah extended southern 

 trip looking after stocks of lumber at the 

 mills for which he contracts. 



OBITUARY. 



William E. Corydon. well known in the 

 lumber trade, with which he has been 

 connected in Chicago for several years 

 past, was found dead in bed at his home 

 in this city. In his right hand he cutched 

 a revolver, and a bullet wound over the 

 right temple indicated how he had come to 

 his death. There was no reason for the 

 act. and the inference is that he was men- 

 tally unsound at the time. 



Mr. Corydon was 57 years old and a 

 veteran of the civil war. For manj- years 

 he was manager of the Holt Lumber Com- 

 pany's business at Oconto, Wis. More re- 

 cently he has been in business on his own 

 account, and, it is said, had built up a 

 flourishing business. A wife and two 

 daugliters survive him. 



Ezra Hunt, who will be remembered by 

 many of the older Indiana hardwood lum- 

 bermen, died at his home in Kokomo, Ind., 

 on the l.jth inst. 



Mr. Hunt was born in Henry County, 

 Indiana, in 1841 but had lived the greater 

 portion of liis life in Kokomo. where he 

 was esteemed as an enterprising and hon- 

 orable citizen. He was a civil was veteran, 

 attaining the rank of captaincy. After 

 the war he became engaged in the lumber 

 and planing mill business at New London, 

 and later at Kokomo. Of late years, on 



Milton W. Sliirk of Peru, Ind.. another 

 old-time and wealthy lumberman, passed 

 away on the 9th inst. He was 53 years 

 old. Beside.s his lumber business, he had 

 vast holdings in other mercantile interests 

 and real estate. 



The many friends of F. J. McBenneu 

 will mourn his death, which occurred on 

 the 12th inst. For the past few years 

 he has been identified with the Paepcke- 

 Leicht Lumber Company interests, coming 

 here from Fort Wayne, Ind., where he was 

 engaged in the lumber business on his own 

 account. Prior to this he was employed 

 in the firm of Ross, Bradley & Co. of 

 West Bay City, Mich. He had recently ac- 

 quired stock in the Chicago Mill & Lum- 

 ber Company, an allied concern of the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Company, and at the time 

 of his death was assistant secretary and 

 assistant manager of that company. 



Mr. McBennett was born in 1872 at Fort 

 Wayne, Ind. He leaves a wife and a baby 

 son to mourn the untimely aud unexpected 

 loss. 



The Markets. 



CHICAGO. 



According to best information the build- 

 ing trade requirements of Chicago are on 

 the decline and already below normal. 

 Labor troubles are responsible in most part 

 for this condition. There was never a bet- 

 ter demand for office quarters, nor, in fact, 

 any other kind of domicile accommodations, 

 and capital ordinarily would be seeking 

 such investments, but coupled with the 

 high prices on all kinds of building ma- 

 terial, the demands of labor make the situa- 

 tion anything but inviting to investors. 



Aside from this blot on the business 

 horizon the situation is excellent. Other 

 lines of hardwood lumber consumption are 

 active and, in fact, demand from such 

 sources is really far in excess of the sup- 

 ply. 



As to the relative standing of the dif- 

 ferent kinds of hardwoods there is but little 

 change to be noted. From outside sources 

 we learn that stocks of hardwoods are be- 

 ginning to show some accumulation, but 

 immediate wants in the way of dry lumber 

 are still going begging. 



The strike among the tallymen in the 

 yards here has curtailed shipments to some 

 extent, notwithstanding a fair movement 

 has been going on. 



PITTSBUKG. 



Dealers in hardwoods have only one 

 cry — too many orders and too few ship- 

 ments. With the mills of every concern 

 in the city running overtime, the dealers 

 are still unable to keep up with the de- 

 mands of the trade, and are daily forced 

 lO discriminate Iwtwcen orders, taking 

 those ouly whicii It is possible to fill within 

 a reasonable length of time. No line of 

 hardwoods is moving slowly, and those 

 dealers who happen to have a small quan- 

 tity of any wood on hand have only to let 

 it be known to get a number of buyers. 



